Titanium and Zirconium Permethylpentalene Complexes, Pn*MCp<sup>R</sup>X, as Ethylene Polymerization Catalysts
作者:Duncan A. X. Fraser、Zoë R. Turner、Jean-Charles Buffet、Dermot O’Hare
DOI:10.1021/acs.organomet.6b00417
日期:2016.8.22
A family of group 4 permethylpentalene complexes, Pn*(MCpX)-X-R (M = Ti, Zr; Cp-R = Cp, Cp-Me, Cp-iBu, Cp-nBu, Cp-Me3, Ind; X = Cl, Me), has been synthesized and fully characterized by multinuclear NMR spectroscopy, elemental analysis, and single-crystal X-ray diffraction studies. These complexes were immobilized on an insoluble polymethylaluminoxane (sMAO), MAO-modified silica (ssMAO), and a MAO-modified layered double hydroxide (LDH-MAO). The effect of substitution around the Cp ligand was examined in relation to their performance (activity, M-W, PDI, polymer morphology) for ethylene polymerization measured both in solution and in slurry phase. Maximum solution-phase activities of 3585 kg/mol center dot h center dot bar were recorded at modest [Zr]:[Al] ratios of 1:250. These were compared to the activities recorded using the equivalent solid-supported complexes, and it was observed that sMAO was a superior support material with average increases in activity of 5.3 and 2.3 times relative to ssMAO and LDH-MAO, respectively. Most striking was the observation that slurry-phase ethylene polymerization activities using equivalent precatalysts supported on sMAO showed enhanced performance compared to the solution phase up to a maximum of 4486 kg/mol center dot h center dot bar.